Révolution de Réarmement

The Révolution de Réarmement, known in English as the Rearmament Revolution, was a period from early 1951 to the late 1950s that saw Haiti go through an era of rearmament and militarization, ostensibly to fight against communism. The junta of Daniel Guay and Francois Durce began the revolution to empower the Haitian Army to crush all liberal movements in the country and maintain the power of the dictatorship, and Haiti was aided by the United States in becoming a powerful military-ruled state in the Caribbean Sea.

History
The concept of the Révolution de Réarmement originated with the hardliners of the Haitian Army, who included Daniel Guay, Francois Durce, Matthieu Bertillon, and Ernest Dumont as well as borderline fascist politicians such as Aaron Vasseur. Guay and Durce, the two most powerful leaders of the junta, were obliged to stop the flow of communism after their coup, as they were allied with the United States and wanted to maintain their power. To do so, Haiti would have to re-equip its army to crush any liberal agitation in the country, so the Rearmament Revolution began shortly after the 1950 Haitian coup d'etat in December 1950. The junta bought US weapons and retained some of the old Soviet-supplied weapons that it had been supplied with prior to the coup, and the Haitian Army was able to crush any signs of communist or socialist trouble in the country. The revolution led to Haiti having a strong regime, and any chances of a coup were extremely unlikely due to the strength of the government.